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The Zend Developer Zone has posted this month's Zend Newsletter for those wanting to keep up on all things Zendish. They have kindly allowed me to republish the most recent issue here for your enjoyment. If you want to read it on a regular basis though you are going to have to subscribe. So take a moment and head over to MyZend, login (or register) and on the preferences panel you'll find the checkbox to subscribe. Go ahead, we'll wait.This edition is just a preview of all of the news that Zend provides each month on its activities, events, product updates, updates to the DevZone, and offers promotions you might want to be aware of. As Cal mentions, though, you'll need to sign up to get future releases of the newsletter they won't be posted over on the Zend Developer Zone. |
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Lorenzo Alberton has posted some updates about the PEAR packages that he maintains to his blog today including MDB_QueryTool, Mail_Queue2, MDB2, and Translation2. Even if lately I've been coding way more in C/C++ than in PHP, I still keep an eye on PEAR developement: I reckon in the last month I've closed a bug a day, on average. And after my last call for help about my PEAR packages, I'm also pleased to announce that someone did indeed offer a hand. I'm happy to welcome not one, but two new developers!Each of the items has links to their PEAR homepage and a few quick words on where the package stands (including developers involved or wanting to get involved). He also reminds developers out there that they can help out too if they want to jump in and get into PEAR. |
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In a new post to his blog, Robert Swarthout about a PHP frontend he's been developing for working with Subversion repositories: The frontend needed to be designed in such a way that each developer could access their working copies and make the full range of actions against them. I decided to also use an AJAX setup so that pages would be quickly loaded and updated by a single toggle of a folder.A few issues popped up, including tracking edits correctly through the interface. His solution revolved around an Apache MPM that could serve different pages to different users and groups. With this solution in place, the functionality could be built up, a list of which he provides including:create working copy from repository (svn checkout)svn blamesvn deletesearch files (via a grep/find combination, omitting .svn folders)svn rename |
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DevShed has posted the second installment of their look at the Abstract Factory pattern in a new tutorial Creating AJAX Requester Objects with Abstract Factory Classes in PHP 5. In this second article of the series, I'm going to demonstrate how to apply the abstract factory pattern to create diverse AJAX HTTP requester objects, which can be used in distinct contexts.They work through Ajax development, creating the requestor objects for it, integrating it into the Abstract Factory pattern, and showing it in action sending a simple message back to the calling script. |
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Paul Jones has announced two new things pertaining to the Solar framework today the release of a new versions and the launch of a new website. The first new release of Solar in three months, version 0.26.0 alpha, has arrived! There are over 150 separate changes and improvements noted in the change log. In conjunction with the new release, we have a brand new website. The site design is from Matt Brett, the CSS and hosting are courtesy of Clay Loveless, and the logo was designed by Ben Carter. Changes in the latest release of the framework include:a move from the Facade pattern to the Factory patternfrontcontroller and pagecontroller now support automatic discovery of alternative output formatsSolar_Sql has a lot of little improvementsa new data filter class Check out the blog entry for the full release notes or just hop on over to the site and pick up this latest edition. |
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Derick Rethans has announced today (briefly) the release of the Release Candidate version of his PHP debugging package XDebug 2.0.0RC3. I just released Xdebug 2.0.0RC3 through the web site and also through PECL. This hopefully last release candidate of Xdebug 2.0.0 addresses a number of segfaults and other small bugs that crept in in Xdebug 2.0.0RC2.The Xdebug extension helps you debugging your script by providing a lot of valuable debug information. The debug information that Xdebug can provide includes the following: stack and function traces in error messages, memory allocation, protection for infinite recursions. |
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If you're both a WordPress an Mint user and are wanting to integrate them the easy way, check out this new entry from Chris Hartjes about combining the two. Now, the installation is fairly easy but there was a weird bug that was appearing, where a check to see if you are running a licensed copy of Mint kept getting triggered when I tried to access my feeds via a feed alias. The solution? An ugly hack, if you ask me.The problem was with a Pepper for Mint called Bird Feeder Pepper that helps track RSS feed usage. The solution he found was a snippet of PHP code you'll need to insert into several of the feed scripts WordPress offers (as provided). |
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From the Oracle Technology Network website, there's a new tutorial in the Oracle+PHP Cookbook series that focuses on using PHP and Oracle together with Ajax to create a simple HTML form example. In this recipe, I discuss all the code necessary to use Ajax to go from a simple Web page to a JavaScript function to an XMLHttpRequest to a PHP script and, finally, to an Oracle database. Along with the code, I do talk about the individual pieces with respect to the whole picture: what each chunk does and why it's important. By reading this HowTo, you will acquire not only some sample code but also, hopefully, a broader understanding of the whole Ajax concept.They step through the creation of the background database tables, including the insertion of some sample data. Next up is the creation of the query to run our check, then testing the script to ensure things are set up as they need to be, and finally, creating the frontend writing the HTML and Javascript to make the form. The end result is a simple form that, when the contents of the text field are changed, a message is sent back to the server to check and see if the email address entered already exists. |
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Rasmus Lerdorf himself has posted some info about a little assistance he's offering to help developers get their foot in the door at Yahoo!. Want to work on some of the busiest and coolest web apps in the world? Do you like Flickr, and want to work downtown San Francisco? Or perhaps you are into music, movies or TV and want to work out of Santa Monica? Jumpcut? Or have you seen answers.yahoo.com? Address Book, Personals, Search, Premium Services, Hot Jobs? Want to do interesting things combining PHP and Flash?All you need to do is send a resume his way and what kind of job interests you have (check out their career site for options) and he'll get you in touch with the right people. |
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As Mike Potter mentions in his new blog entry, Flash, Flex and PHP just got a great leg up when it comes to using the combination: Patrick Mineault, who runs the AMFPHP project, has released a new version of AMFPHP 1.9, beta 2 now. However, the real big news in his blog post was the news that there is now a C based AMF extension for PHP.According to the test data Patrick gives, the speed jump is well worth implementing the different functionality a 100% boost, in fact, than the standard PHP version of AMFPHP. Check out Patrick's blog for the rest of these amazing stats. |
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Well, according to Soledad Pendaes, PHP will never have a (real) Railslike framework because of some of the limitations with objects inherent to the language. I know the title is harsh but it's so true. At least it is according to nowadays php's implementation of classes and objects, which do not permit to reopen and add or redefine new methods to an existing class definition, which is the basis upon Rails (and I presume lots more of applications and frameworks) is built.The post goes on to talk about they why behind the statement basically that this kind of functionality makes it easier to Extend. Morph. Adapt. Improve. Refine. your applications. She talks some about other frameworks that have tried to offer the same kinds of functionality Rails does (CakePHP and Symfony) but notes that they still have their limitations (in specific, mentioning CakePHP's AppModel functionality). |
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The Zend Developer Zone has posted both the Zend Weekly Summaries issues #323 and #324. In #323, there's talk of OpenSSL integration, a CVS server change, and several PHP security discussions (a suggested read). Issue #324 talks about runtime JIT proposals, debugging overloaded objects, more on PHP security, the release of PHP 5.2.1 RC3, and more fine grained control over allow_url_* Be sure to keep up with the latest mailing list and community happenings through these great updates from Steph Fox. |
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As mentioned on the Zend Developer Zone, there's a new article over on the IBM developerWorks website talking about getting Ajax and PHP to play nicely together with DB2 through Xajax. Various PHP class libraries are available for using Ajax with PHP, among them Xajax, an open source, objectoriented, PHP class library. In this article, learn how to implement PHP, Ajax, and Xajax to develop a dynamic Web application solution accessing IBM DB2 9 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows.They look at what Xajax is before getting started (to level the playing field) and then start with the installations and usage:Install DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and WindowsInstall PHP and XajaxCreate a DB2 database tableSending a requestProcessing a requestBy the end, you'll have a simple (form) application that can interact easily with a PHP backend, talking to a DB9 database, that can save catalog information. |
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Latest PHPClasses.org Releases:Cruncher classImage GalleryRCalendarAntiSpam FeedbackSatya Shopping CartSimple Abstraction LayermytoolbardbStringItShellContIP infoArray to Listpork.dbObjectShopping Cart by satya and DeepakHTMLSelectListphpSortTable |
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Latest PECL Releases:pecl_http 1.4.0oci8 1.2.3cairo_wrapper 0.2.2pecl_http 1.4.1zip 1.8.5 |
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On Splitbrain.org, there's a new post that points out a script he's created to make adding comments to any PHP script possible My Two Cents. I recently updated My Two Cents. My Two Cents (or MTC) is a simple PHP class to add comments to any PHP driven site. It is was written with simplicity in mind but still has some strong features and is easily tweakable. It consists of a single PHP file and can be added with just a few lines of code. The post also describes some of the functionality it comes with, including a CAPTCHA mechanism and a blacklist feature to help reduce spam. There's also a bit of multilanguage support included as well. |
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The Zend Developer Zone has a nwe post that announces the release of the first version of an API created to interface your PHP scripts with the Website Payments Pro API from Paypal phpPaypalPro. It is a framework developed in PHP5 that integrates easily with the Website Payments Pro API from Paypal. Currently it supports 4 major operations available from the Website Payments Pro SOAP 1.1 API. It has taken advantage of the builtin SOAP extension available natively in PHP5 to generate the requests and interprets the responses to and from the Website Payments Pro SOAPbased web service.Current operations supported include: DoDirectPayment, SetExpressCheckout, GetExpressCheckoutDetails and DoExpressCheckoutPayment and you can get more information about other functionality from the project's documentation. Be sure to check out the sample script and the full SourceForge page for even more Paypal interface goodness. |
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As announced in this new post to the Symfony blog today, The Definitive Guide to Symfony book from APress has officially been published. Along with that release comes another the 1.0 RC1 release of the framework itself. We are very proud to announce the official release of The Definitive Guide to Symfony, a book that myself and Fabien spent the last months writing. The 490 pages of this book explain all you need to know from starting up symfony to managing a symfony application, with a lot of practical examples and expert tips. It is available in bookstores right now.The book is released under the GFDL license (it's a free download) and can be purchased at most book retailers. |
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The results of the latest International PHP Poll are in for the question Which is the best way to do PHP web testing? Options included Use SimpleTest Web tester, Use element IDs or names to test links, forms and fields, and Log HTTP requests in the application. Coming out on top with 22.6 percent of the votes was the first item, though Use SimpleTest Web tester. Second was a close race with All and None only about 1 percent different (None being the higher). Be sure to get your vote in for this week's poll question What Is the Top Mistake That PHP Coders Commit? Options for this poll include Not escaping entities and SQL input, Syntax errors, and Not using a Framework. |
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PierreAlain Joye has posted about the latest update to his Zip PECL package today: This release fixes two small issues, a leak happening on error and a bug in extractTo. Empty directories were not created recursively, for example an entry like test/emptydir, only the test directory was created.This latest download is here and the homepage for the project is over on this PECL page (as well as details on what the package can do and documentation of all of its features). |
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